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Enlarge / This unsourced leak from China’s Weibo service lines up nicely with Bloomberg’s report. We have our first reliable Pixel 3 rumor of the year. A report from Bloomberg claims that Foxconn will be the manufacturer for the Pixel 3 and details several aspects of the phone’s new design. …

Enlarge / A stick of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. Intel Ever since Intel and Micron announced 3D XPoint memory in 2015, the world has been waiting for the companies to use it to build memory sticks. 3D XPoint blends the properties of flash storage and DRAM memory. Like flash, …

Enlarge / The Uber ride-sharing app is seen on a mobile phone on February 12, 2018. San Francisco’s city attorney has issued formal subpoenas to Uber and Lyft in order to ascertain whether the ride-sharing companies classify their drivers as employees or contractors in the wake of a landmark decision …

The US Department of Homeland Security recently warned that malicious hackers may have targeted US phone users by exploiting a four-decades-old networking protocol used by cell phone providers around the world, according to a spokesman for US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Meanwhile, the spokesman said, one of the nation’s major …

Tom Murphy explains how he got a Super NES game running on an unmodified NES. At this point, we’re used to modern computers being able to perform near-perfect emulation of older gaming hardware via software trickery. The latest project from Tom “Tom7” Murphy, though, seems poised to coin its own …

Qualcomm on Tuesday announced the launch of a new chip explicitly designed for standalone augmented reality and virtual reality devices: the Snapdragon XR1. The chipmaking giant debuted the tech ahead of this week’s Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, California. The company is staying tight-lipped on technical details about the …

Enlarge / Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), left, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in 2014. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images In the last couple of years, companies like Uber, Waymo, and GM’s Cruise have been testing more and more self-driving vehicles on public roads. Yet important details about those tests have been kept …

Enlarge / These plankton apparently didn’t mind living in a still-warm seafloor crater. John Maisano/University of Texas Usually, new studies of the dino-killing mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous provide another view into just how bloody awful it was. But if you’re a glass-half-full kind of person, it’s …